Re: [gmane.emacs.devel] gnus-read-mark not preserved

[Florent Rougon <flo@via.ecp.fr>]

Hi,

Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> wrote:

> It appears that all marks are lost: they are not marked new (.) and,
> what's more distressing, ticks (!) are also undone.

I believe I have the same problem. A few years ago, I used Gnus for both
mail and news[1] without any problem. Then, by the end of 2001, I
stopped reading the news and kept Gnus only for the mail. Lately (in
April or so), I wanted to read some newsgroups again in Unplugged mode
but encountered this problem: every now and then, Gnus didn't remember a
bunch of articles I had read and was displaying them as unread again (it
seems to be "all articles later than $some_date").

This happened every two days, or something like that. If I read a group
and entered it a few minutes later, no problem. But when I started to
read it again the day after, or two days later, then for some reason,
Gnus had forgotten a lot of the articles I had read and was displaying
them as unread again. This made news-reading almost impossible, so I
stopped reading news, again. :-/

I tried killing the groups, removing them from and readding them to the
agent, deleting the files under ~/News/agent/nntp/$server and checking
that no information whatsoever from the newsgroup I was trying to read
was present in ~/.newsrc.eld before subscribing to it again, but nothing
helped. Every time I recreated the group and started to read it again,
Gnus would forget a whole bunch of the read messages one or two days
later.

If someone can help us solve this issue, I'd be very grateful. Thanks.

  [1] with gnus-unplugged

-- 
Florent